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Ought "Yankee" Traitors 
Rule the Nation? 



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A SINGLE FACT 



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A NORTH CAROLINA BACKWOODSMAN. 



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•• Come, now, and let us reason together, «vith the Lord , thougli your sins he 
as scarlet they shall be a.s white as snow, though they be red like crimson they 
shall be as wool."' 



Of late vast numbers of the American people have 
been most unfortunate ; they have made some very serious 
mistakes in the management of their political aftairs, yet 
they believe themselves justified in the course they pursued, 
they acted according to their best judgment in the matter, 
they sought to deceive no man, their conduct from first to 
last was open and above board, and in perfect good faith 
toward all men ; they at no time concealed anything, but 
distinctly jjroclaimed their intentions to all parties con- 
cerned, and gave them ample opportunity to adopt such 
measures as they might think proper ; therefore no man 
can honestly say that they deceived him. Their whole 
course has been honest, conscientious and consistent ; their 
sacrifices have proved their consistency at least. Never- 
theless they were mistaken ; they deceived themselves, and 
that most seriously, too. But they have discovered their 
mistake. The great body of the Southern people now ad- 
mit that the whole secession movement was a most grevious 
mistake if not a crime. They now see their error and ac- 
knowledge their fault, and as soon as they were convinced 
that they were wrong, like honest men, they desisted from 
their purpose, and oftered to do all in their power to repair 
whatever of injury they may have occasioned : and in order 
that this their solemn desire and intention may be made 
manifest to aU men, and placed beyon(f the possibility of a 
doubt, the Southern people have again : — 

"Tendered their plighted faith to the government of the 
United States, and declared to their fellow citizens in all 
parts of the union that they desire that former difterences 
be forgotten, and nothing remembered but their ancient 
concord, and the equal title they have to share in the glories 
of the past, and to labor together for the even greater 
glories of the future ; that they unanimously entertain the 
conviction that to support and defend the Constitution of 



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the United States, and the government constituted Ly it, in 
all its rightful authority, is not only essential to their hap- 
piness and freedom as a people, but is a solemn duty to 
their country and their God, and that they are ready to 
gather around the altar of the Union, resolved to support 
it under every exigency, and at all hazards, as one man, and 
with one voice invoke the blessings of heaven for its main- 
tenance and preservation, till time itself shall be no more." 

Such are the sentiments of the Southern people towards 
the American Union ; can mortal man do more than this, 
can reasonable man ask more I This settles the main ques- 
tion to the satisfaction of every true lover of our country. 

But there remains some little difference of opinion among 
the people in various parts of the country, upon a few minor 
questions of policy. They are by their very nature open 
questions, questions upon which even the most intelligent, 
honest and conscientious men may properly and legitimately 
entertain conflicting opinions. These questions remain un- 
settled. The Southern people do not ask that they shall be 
settled according to their particular views, they desire that 
they shall be disposed of in such manner as may seem best 
to the whole body of the American peop'e, and most con- 
ducive to the welfare of the republic. To this end they 
propose that the people in all sections of the country may 
reason together concerning these disputed questions, and 
thus see how the whole matter may be settled to the great- 
est advantage of all parties interested. 

But no sooner do the Southern people attempt to carry 
■out this most laudable purpose, than certain persons among 
us cry out, " No, no, no, we will not reason with you upon 
any subject, we will not hear you, you shall not be permitted 
to express your sentiments upon any political subject what- 
ever; we care nothing about your honesty and sincerity of 
purpose ; we care nothing about the principles of right, 
and justice, and equity ; we are the only competent judges 
of right and wrong ; we have the power in our own hands 
and we are determined to retain it. You have been guilty 
of making one political mastake, therefore we will not trust 
you, you shall not have an opportunity of convincing the 
American people of your loyalty and fidelity to the repub- 
lic ; go, we will not reason with you." 

These men, no doubt, consider themselves Christians and 
reasonable people, yet how far are they from following the 



example given us by Divine Wisdom. How far, also, are 
they from being guided by even the plain dictates of rea- 
son, common sense, or experience. They at once conclude 
that the unfortunate must be wholly corrupt, and that there 
can be no good, no sense of truth, of justice or of honor in 
a poor fallible being who has made even one serious mis- 
take. These men, in their heady eagerness to deprive a 
large portion of their fellow-citizens of their just rights, 
seem to forget that crrarc humanum est. "to err is human," 
and tliat even the wisest and best men in all ages were not 
infallible in their political conduct. In fact, were mankind 
to act upon the principle of these modern wise men, no 
people would have a history; every name that Avise and 
good men love to venerate would be doomed to eternal 
infamy ; and we would know nothing of the mighty efforts 
5ind the glorious achievements of the grand old sages, 
patriots, statesmen and warriors that long ages past held 
forth on the shores of the ^gean sea, or on the banks of 
the .Tiber, and who "still rule mankind from the silent 
tomb," If these men be right in eternally damning a 
man for one mistake, how absurd it must be for the world 
to take so much pains to preserve the stories of Thucydides, 
Xenophon, Polybius, Livy, Tacitus and a host of others who 
have simply handed down the names of men who were 
■continually blundering in political matters. If these men 
be right, neither Solon, nor Nicias, nor Pelopidas, nor 
Pericles, nor any of their compatriots were statesmen or 
honest patriots; and cannot any a penny-a-liner show how 
Pyrhus, and Alexander, and Ceasar, and Pompey might 
liave pursued different courses with great advantage to 
themselves and their several causes ? So these great men 
w'ere not without making some great mistakes, and there- 
fore they were no generals, according to the reasoning of 
our wise men. And so vre might go on erasing every 
*'name that is dear to fame," until the whole roll becomes 
one long blank, if these men are right in refusing to trust 
men who have made one single political mistake. 

Yet such is the disposition that a large part}' at the North 
bring to the consideration, discussion and soluffeion of the 
most momentous, the most sacred, and the most solemn 
question that ever devolved upon mortal man. 

Is it possible to conceive of a more important question 
than the harmonizing, uniting and amalgamating the various 



and discordent elements now drifting about in these United 
States, so that tliey sliall be blended into one' harmonious, 
symmetrical and durable body. Upon the just and equitable 
solution of this great question are pending the individual 
liappiness of each and every one of us, the existence of the 
republic as a free, prosperous and powerful state among 
the nations, and the hope of the poor, the lowly, and the 
oppressed upon the face of the whole habited globe. It is 
no figure of speech to say that the attention of all mankind 
is now turned toward these United States, and that all 
classes are anxiously watching the result of the last act of 
the grand drama which the American people have been 
performing for the last five years. Of all the vast multi- 
tudes of men throughout the whole civilized world, a few 
of the immediate actors only seem to be incapable of un- 
derstanding and appreciating the full granduer and solem- 
nity of the occasion. These people are so wrapped up in 
self, so full of their own importance, so completely control- 
ed by prejudice and passion, that it is impossible for them 
to comprehend the magnitude of the interests involved. 
Yet these narrow, contracted, these petty, little minds, 
arrogate to themselves all the wisdom, all the patriotism, 
all the forbearance and all the christian charity in the land. 
They would have us believe that they have some sort of 
divine right to settle this whole question among themselves, 
according to their good will and pleasure, and that it is 
our duty to stand by in humble silence, v.^iile they are dis- 
posing of us and the interests and honor of the republic as 
may seem best to themselves. These men take it upon 
themselves to tell the people of the South that they shall 
have no voice in the solution of the great question of the 
age, although the Southern people are, of all people upon 
the face of the earth, the most interested in its settlement. 
In refusing to permit the Southern members to take their 
seats in the Congress of the United States, tliese people 
have arrogantly forbidden the American people to i-eason to- 
gether, in a case involving the most vital interests of all 
parties in every section of the country ; and a case, more- 
over, which cannot be settled in any other way than by the 
whole body of the people meeting upon the floor of Con- 
gress, in the persons of their representatives, and there 
reasoning together in a spirit of mutual forbearance and 
charity, as becomes christian gentlemen. 



But who are these meu who assume the exclusive right 
to declare that the American people shall not' reason to- 
gether upon vital questions involving national interests ? 

There is a body of men, more or less numerous, in every 
Northern state, intelligent, energetic, and resolute in the 
pursuit of their object, but selfish and narrow-minded in 
their views, intolerant and vindictive towards all who differ 
from them, and reckless and unscrupulous as to the means 
they employ. These men pride themselves upon the acci- 
dent of birth and descent more than upon any other thing. 
Their highest ambition is to be able to trace their gene- 
alogy to some of the Puritan stock of England ; this done 
they are perfectly satisfied with themselves. And although 
the Puritans always were of the very lowest class of Eng- 
lish society, yet these men have persuaded themselves that 
any consanguinity with them constitutes a good and valid 
claim to a natural superiority over all other people ; that 
it endows its possessore with superior intelligence, a nicer 
sense of honor and truth, a purer patriotism, and a more 
generous love of liberty and of humanity than are vouch- 
safed to other American citizens, therefore they conclude 
that they are qualified in a special manner to regulate, 
direct and control all the affairs of the republic, and justi- 
fied in treating with contempt and disdain the opinions and 
desires of all American citizens who are not anxious to 
trace their pedigree to English boors, and are unwilling to 
affiliate with the adulterated and spurious Puritanism of 
these days. The great lights and representative men 
among them are Charles Sumner* and Ben. F. Butler of 
Massachusetts, Thaddeus Stevens* of Pennsylvania, Horace 
Greely and Rev. Mr. Cheever of New York. The antece- 
dents of these men are well known to the nation, and there- 
fore need no mention here, and they fully and fairly repre- 
sent the various elements of what may very properly be 
called the Puritan Faction in these United States. As 
Mr. Madison defines faction to be " a number of citi- 
zens who are united and actuated by some common impulse 
of passion or of iaterpst adverse to the rights of other citi- 
zens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the 
community." Judged by their continued and extravagant 
opposition to the will of the American people, as expressed 

* The Pn'sident of' the United States has public! j dtchired thiit tliesc men 
and their followers are trtiitors to the Republic. 



by 8ucces8iv-e Chief Executives of the nation for the last 
thirty years, there can be no doubt but this definition fits 
them very welL 

Now it so happens that although this faction abounds in 
ostentatious patriotism and noisy professions of fidelity to 
the republic, yet the vast majority of the American people 
have ever been suspicious of the purity of the one and the 
disinterestedness of the other; therefore they have never 
given it their full, hearty, and entire confidence, though 
they have permitted it, for a time, to usurp the management 
of their affivirs. Every one knows what the political con- 
duct of these men has been, but perhaps very few have 
taken the trouble to inquire after their motives ; to discover 
the principle that animates and guides them in all political 
questions. Yet it is very desirable that the American peo- 
ple should' thoroughly understand this matter. It is in fact 
of the first importance to their own peace and happiness, 
and to the safety and prosperity of the republic, that every 
true and loyal citizen should be truly informed of the mo- 
tives which govern the political conduct of this Puritan 
Faction. 

It is of course ditficult for the general public to ascertain 
the true motives which influence political organizations not 
in harmony with the sentiments of the whole people. But 
if we can only discover their true sentiments concerning 
any right or privilege which is dearly prized and cherished 
by the vast body of citizens, then we can understand the 
motives which are likely to control their political conduct. 
The motives paraded before the public, by the leaders of 
factions, are seldom the ones that influence their actions; 
the real ones are revealed to the initiated only ; the leaders 
are too shrewd to expose them to public view. But occa- 
sonally an over zealous partizan lets them out, and in this 
way the public comes by the truth. To such, then, we must 
look for correct information, and we need not go far to find 
him. One of the real, genuine, Puritan stock, and one of 
the brightest lights of the faction, has just been ventilating 
its true sentiments regarding the value in which they hold 
American citizenship, and thereby given the American peo- 
ple full opportunity to judge of their motives. 

A certain resident of the city of New York, has been for 
some time past a regular correspondent of an English Puri" 



tan periodical, the Loniou " Spectatok." Ho styles liimself 
" Yaukce/' says he is a native of New England, and tliat hie 
ancestors emigrated there from England, some two hundred 
years ago, so there can be no doubt about his being a full 
blooded Puritan, and therefore well versed in all things ap- 
pertaining to this Puritan Faction, and fully (jualitied to 
opeak for it. Nor will any one imagine that he would give 
other than its real sentiments when speaking fraternally 
and confidentially to the English mendjers of the Faction ; 
ho is then unquestionable authority in such cases. 

Well then, what are tlie sentiments of this Puritan Fac^ 
tion, as enunciated by this li^ legitimate spokesman, concern- 
ing the dearest and most sacred right of American citizens? 

In one of his communications to the SjJectakyr, after a 
labored essay to show that the words " English" and " Anglo 
Saxon" mean one and the same thing, that they are synon- 
ymous terms, he goes on ki put forth this outrageous, this, 
•coming from a native American, most monstrous doctrine, 
^as the recognized and fundamental principle of this Puritan 
Faction ; he says to his English Puritan readers : — 

" You think that we value our American citizenship, but 
X assure you toe /jrtz^ far more our Anglo- Saxonhood, axd 

1SHOULD THE TIMK KVER COME, AND COME IT MAY, WHEN IT WILL BE 
"NECESSARY FOR US TO I.LKCr BETWEEN THEM, WO shall CERTAINLY 
CHOOSE THE LATTER." 

Here is the Purit^m estimate of the worth of American 
citizenship, for you. This Yankee's words require no com- 
ment; they speak plainly for themselves. He tells hia 
English brothers that it is well enough to let the American 
people believe that these Y^ankee Puritans are honest men 
•and good citizens, and that they are sincerely attached to 
the interests of the republic ; it is very well to let them 
continue to cherish this opinion, but he wishes his English 
brothers to know the exact truth of the matter, he wishes 
to undeceive them upon this head, therefore he assures them 
that it is all a delusion of the American people ; these 
Puritans care nothing whatever about American citizenship 
when its obligations and duties conflict in the least with 
-the interests of Anglo-Saxonhood. And as "Yankee" has 
demonstrated that "English" and "Anglo Saxon" are con- 
vertible terms, it follows that every Y^ankee Puritan is a 



fulI-Lj coded John Bull' in liis .syniputliies, sentiment.-j and 
aspirations, aild; of ■ course, liis paramount allegiance is due,, 
not to the republic, but to the British crown. This is the 
plain and obvious nieaninG; of " Yankee's" words ; no one 
can doubt this. He explicitly tells his brotliers, the English 
Puritans, that so long as American policy is consonant with. 
English views, and harmonious with British interests, the 
Yankee Puritans are willing to be counted American citizens, 
but no longer. Whenever the x\merican people shall at- 
tempt to inaugurate a policy purely American, looking to 
the welfare of the republic only, then these Yankee Puri- 
tans will show their true colors, then they will desert the 
republic, and, as in duty bound, espouse the cause of tlie 
British Monarchy. Should these United States be involved 
in trouble with England, (and " Y'ankee'' himself says that 
trouble with her will come) then all these Y^ankee Puritans 
will most certainly be found in the front ranks of the mor-- 
tal enemies of the republic. It is themselves that say it. 

Here, then, are the real sentiments of this Puritan Faction, 
towards the republic. Would any one imagine that a man 
born upon the soil of the republic, could harbor, much less- 
express, such mean, sneaking treason against his native 
land? Would any one think it possible for a "body of Apier- 
ican citizens to be influenced by such base and treacherous 
motives as are implied in '•'Y^'ankeeV words, were they 
not boastingly heralded forth ]>y themselves as their guiding 
principles? Is it possible for the most virulent and vindic- 
tive enemies of the republic to cherish more malicious feel- 
ings of enmity and malignity t'.)wards her than are claimed by 
this "Yankee" as the rule and guide of the Puritan Faction? 
Are such men anything more or less than emissaries of. the. 
British crown? Yet these are the men who are ever jeadj 
to brand as traitor every Ame.rican citizen who daies tp 
question their exclusive right to set themselves up as it^s 
supreme supervisors, judges and dictators in American .pol- 
itics. These are the men who come between the American 
people, and tell them that they shall not reason itogetheir, 
that they shall not discusg certain questions in a fraternal 
manner ; that they shall not liaye the privilege of exchang- 
ing views upon them, nor tlie opportunity of coijiiiig to -^ii 
amicable, just and equitable' understanding conoerning them-. 

Is it not evident, therefore, that the great object of this 



Taction is to distract the councils of the republic, hopiirr^ 
thereby, to paralyze the energies and powers of the Ameri- 
can people, so that they shall be unable to compete with 
England in peace, or contend with her in war? Tiiis is 
their main object. Everybody knows, that large as our 
planet is, there is not room enough ui)on its surface for both 
these United States and England to exist upon it as first 
class powers; one or the other must go dovv^n, and in the 
unity of the American people England reads her doom. 
Hence the persistent and frantic efibrts of her emissaries, 
the "Yankee" Puritan Faction, to engender, foster and prop- 
agate a spirit of strife, dissention and discord between the 
people of the different sections of this union, hence, also, 
its violent and continued opposition to any and every meas- 
ure that would tend to unite their sentiments and harmon- 
ize their interests. They are true John Bulls, therefore 
their great political maxim is divide d impcra, "divide and 
conquer." It is possible that the republic may not find any 
Catalines in i :they are too cowardly, too craven spirited for 
that, but she certainly will find many a mean, sneaking, 
treacherous Hippias in its ranks. 

We flatter ourselves that we are a free people, a self-gov- 
erned people, but is this not a mistake ? Unquestionably tlie 
Puritan Faction rules the nation ; there can be no two opin- 
ions about that, and it is equally certain that Exeter Hall 
rules the Puritan Faction ; Exeter Hall directs its intelli- 
gence, moulds its sentiments and controls its will. When 
Exeter Hall has spoken the Yankee Puritans can speak, but 
not before. Not a man of them has ever originated a polit- 
ical idea, good or bad ; not one of them has ever entertained 
or held a political idea independent of Exeter Hall. The 
whole policy of the "Yankee" Puritan Faction is prepared and 
concocted for, and dictated to thom, by their trans-Atlantic 
brothers, the English Puritans, so that the lower classes, in 
fact the very dregs of English society, creatures who are 
not permitted to exercise any political power in their own 
country, creatures that the governing class there regard as 
being devoid of ordinary intelligence, are by means of this 
Puritan Faction, virtually the rulers of the whole American 
people, and the absolute masters of the destiny of this 
mighty republic. 

Surely this state of things ought not to be permitted to 
■continue any longer. Are Americans willing to be governed 



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by the very dregs of English society? Can any intelligent 
man believe that the rcpu])lic is safe in the hands of such 
men? Is it not high time for every loyal American citizen 
to ponder well this last solemn warning of the Fatlier of 
his Country to the people whom he loved so well and served 
so long: — 

" Against the insidious ivilcs of foreig-n influence, {I conjm-e 
you believe me, fellow citizens,) thejealmisy of a free people (ms^H 
to be ayntinually aicake, since history ami experience prove thai 
foreign infliuMce is one of the most baneful foes of republican 
government f and ask himself seriously, not as a partizan, not 
as a politician, but as an honest man, as a being responsible 
not only to his fellow man, but also to the living God, for 
the conscientious discharge of his duty as an American 
citizen ; if it bo right or proper to allow this Faction to 
stand between the American people and their true interests 
in preventing them from coming to an lionorable, just and 
equitable understanding in all national matters; and if it 
be not incumbent upon him to do all in his power to put a 
stop to the insane and senseless agitation of these foul 
mouthed, red-handed, black-hearted traitors ? The Roman 
people had a most expeditious and effective mode of silenc- 
ing such characters, ne quid repuhlica detrimmU caperet, " lest 
more serious danger might hapj)en to the republic," through 
their subtle trickery, chicanery and machinations. Every 
prudent man must feel that the republic is not yet out of 
danger; "a house divided against itself cannot stand," there- 
fore it is necessary to act. The American people must 
choose between Washington and this Faction with foreign 
S}Tnpathies, sentiments and objects. They cannot have both, 
they must have one. Patiick Henry said, upon a memora- 
ble occasion: — 

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and 
that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judg- 
ing of the future but by the past.'' 

We know the result of Washington's policy, and we are 
not -wdthout experience as regards that of this Faction, so 
that no man can plead ignorance upon the subject. The 
question is, shall the policy of Washington, or of " Yankee" 
and his friends prevail in tlie councils of tlie nation? This 
is the all-important question for every American citizen to 
decide, and upon this decision hangs the fate of the republic 



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